My Prayer For Christmas
I have a strong sense, even more than usual, that people are really going to come to faith in Christ during this thing.
Over the past few days, I’ve been praying from Psalm 115:
“Not to us, O Lord, not to us, but to your name give glory,
for the sake of your steadfast love and your faithfulness!
Why should the nations say,
‘Where is their God?’
Our God is in the heavens;
he does all that he pleases.”
~Psalm 115:1-3
And what pleases him is to save people. Do it, Lord!
These are the four requests I’ve been praying:
1. For the unbelievers who have received an invitation to accept them and come.
2. For the Spirit of God to be abundantly present in the room from the very beginning.
3. For humility. We can’t exalt Jesus and ourselves at the same time. If we’re thinking about the glory of the one, we won’t be exalting the other.
4. For a harvest of souls.
Pray with me…
J.D. Greear is the pastor of The Summit Church, in Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina. He leads the Summit in a bold vision to plant one thousand new churches by the year 2050. Pastor J.D. completed his Ph.D. in Theology at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. He has served as a member of the Board of Directors of Chick-fil-A since January 2022 and recently served as the 62nd president of the Southern Baptist Convention. Pastor J.D. and his wife Veronica are raising four awesome kids: Kharis, Alethia, Ryah, and Adon.
This article has been republished from the J.D. Greear website and is under copyright law. It may not be republished without express written consent by J.D. Greear Ministries Team
Other books authored by Pastor J.D. Greear include Essential Christianity (2023), Just Ask (2021), What Are You Going to Do with Your Life? (2020), Searching for Christmas (2020), Above All (2019), Not God Enough (2018), Gaining by Losing (2015), Gospel (2011), Stop Asking Jesus into Your Heart (2013), and Jesus, Continued… (2014).
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